Mapion local search allows people to point at what they want more information on, in the real world, from their mobile phone.  How is it done ?  By combining satellite navigation and sensors to determine what someone is pointing at.

The company that designed the technology is GeoVector.  Patrick Bray from GeoVector says that "the phone know where the user is via GPS, and know the direction the user is pointing to thanks to a heading sensor.  It send this information to our servers, where the billboard location and information are stored."  Brays colleague, Arron Judson adds "the building needs no special beacons, barcodes, or other identifying solutions, we just need to know the location.  There are many databases of location being developed, such as Google Local, Yahoo! Maps, MSN MapPoint, Amazon A9."

See a demo here 

Check out the mobile version of Flickr - seems mobile services are coming thick and fast....http://www.flickr.com/mob/.

And not only can you access Bloglines on your mobile device but it it automatically keeps track of which articles that you read. That means you can switch back and forth between the mobile version and the full version when you’re at your computer.

Full Bloglines can be found at http://www.bloglines.com/.

If you use del.icio.us and you want  easy access from your mobile then visit http://mobilicio.us

I saw a demo of the the mobile Onspeed service on a P910i which was very impressive.  Onspeed will provide a Java Based Web Browser that runs on the phone and links into the OnSpeed service.  Java MIDP 1.0 and 2.0 Java devices are supported.  The mobile service is not available yet but should be out within the next month or so.

Keep an eye on this tech company, they are going places, and their software really does work. Check here for an independant review of their existing service.

Visitors to Multimap.com can now request that a URL of a particular map be sent to their mobile phones via SMS.  How do they do this ?  By clicking on the mobile phone icon below a map. 

The service is available from Vodafone, TMobile and O2 networks.  Text are charged at the standard rate and each Map costs 50p.  Users can then view the Map over a 15 day trial period nad use a special zoom in and zoom out function.

You can visist www.multimap.com to start downloading maps now.

It seems that the installer for Jeode actually install another CAB file in the root of the Phone.  Previously this was then executed by the OS, but it seems under WM5 this is not the case.  You'll have to manually execute the CAB file yourself from the default file application or any other application you use to install CAB files on the device.  The Jeode version in question is 1.7.3 - I can't vouch for other version of Jeode as this is the only version that I have access to.

An on-demand service that is quite innovative.  You can find it here.

The case goes back to 2002 when the intellectual property frim NTP launched a lawsuit against RIM, the basis of which was a patent on a handheld email device.  The lawsuit initially resulted in a deal between the two companies that was fixed in March last year.  Under the terms of this deal RIM would pay NTP around $450 to settle this claim,  However this deal was basically wreckied when a VIrginia Court rules that the arrangement was not enforceable. RIM did receive a glimmer of light when the district judge ordered a re-examinsation of NTP's patents.  We wait waith bated breath as RIM and NTP are back in court during the month of February 2006.......

I have lots (hundreds) of contacts in my Outlook calendar.  I don't necessarily want all of these on my mobile phone.  Currently phone providers don't provide such niceties as an easy mechanism to have seperate contact lists - one for business and one for personal that can be either easily swapped or accessed from the phone.  To combat this, what I'd quite like is a midlet application that can sync' with designated contacts, exporting the VCard data to the phone that can be read by the Midlet which can then integrate with phone functionality such as SMS, making calls etc. I may want to extend this to add specific data, such as sales lifecycle or project lifecycle information or maybe even some form of contact hierarchy.

I can find nothing that exists to solve what I consider to be a problem that seems to be treated by almost everyone with a phone as an idiosyncracy that has to be put up with......

So, I've started to build my own.  Specifically it will:

Synch with VCARD contacts that are contained in a directory on the PC (these will be automatically exported from Outlook).
Store these contacts in a directory on the phone outside of the normal VCard contacts storage.  These will be accessed and displayed by the midlet application.
Integrate with core phone functionality so that phone call or sms can be evoked from current contact.
Have the ability to make changes on the phone that will be synch'd back to the PC.

If anyone has any other thoughts then drop me a line.....